Archimedes' Principle, Archimedes Principle Quotes

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.

All things want to float.

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled to entertain the highest expectations, if I am fortunate enough to discover only one thing that is certain and indubitable.

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.